Eight years ago Mehnaz M. Afridi had a shocking encounter she's still struggling to make sense of, fortunately. The setting? Dachau, Germany.
Little had prepared the Pakistani-born Muslim for the impact the Shoah site might have on her. Today Dr. ...

Where does poetic inspiration come from? Nadav Lapid's new film The Kindergarten Teacher wants to know. But something heavier is on its mind: the liabilities of that lyrical muse. We live in vulgar times, as is made plain from the opening shot of a ...

Woman in Gold, like The Wizard of Oz, is the story of a niece on a quest to regain family property after a storming. It has good and evil conjurers and even a straw man. Yet, contrary to the Kansas reverie, Simon Curtis's new film begins in a ...

Remember when "Isis" was just an ancient Egyptian goddess? For most of us that all changedlast year as news began streaming in of a violent jihadist group in Iraq and Syria. Now America and some 60 other nations are battling these extremist ...

An ideal literary diet includes solid screen adaptations -- stories you can watch with the added spicings of another's imagination. Provided, of course, that the film serves up enough narrative textures to deliver satisfaction. Happily, this is the ...